Word: live
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing more likely to reveal the soul of a people. History is littered with stories of nations destroyed by their own wealth. It is true that we have accumulated a small but a blatant fringe of extravagance and waste, nourished in idleness, and another undesirable class who seek to live without work...
...Sultan. ". . .Long Live the Sultan." And so upon the day his father was buried with the full Moslem rights of Morocco and the full Christian rites of France, Sultan Mulai Mohammed, as he will be known, stepped under the Imperial sunshade to direct the destinies of his native land-under the aegis of the Republican French, who are now expected to have a freer hand than ever in the administration of their greatest protectorate...
...strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
...phrase often penned by Samuel Pepys, who will live in the genial preservative of a diary he kept in the 17th Century as long as there is English literature. Mr. Pepys was not, in the Victorian interpretation, a strictly moral man, and it is from his amatory propensities that much of this graceful comedy is spun. He visits a lady's lodging with the worst motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays...
...Crownes soon get used to hearing people speak as if some hereditary tragedy were certain to overtake them. After the war they live together in London where they are regarded as twin comets of disaster. Their charm is sufficient to make everybody want to know them, sufficient also to make everyone want to be in at the death of their airy and desperate career. Trevor describes them: "'Their career is as romantic as a soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just...